M 6.2 in Papua New Guinea on 10 Oct 2018 22:00 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1158780
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 124.26 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.9574 , 151.6677
Event Date: 10 Oct 2018 22:00 UTC
11 Oct 2018 08:00 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Oct 2018 22:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000habl Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.3      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 173 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia: Papua sends medical team to PaluSun, 14 Oct 2018 00:37:00 +0200.

Nethy Dharma Somba. Jayapura | Fri, October 12, 2018 | 09:32 am. The Papua administration has dispatched a medical team to Palu, Central Sulawesi, to provide medical services following a strong earthquake and tsunami that impacted the regio
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Difunden impactantes videos del violento sismo que sacudió a Papúa Nue ... Sat, 13 Oct 2018 22:18:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 7 en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió el pasado 10 de octubre la isla de Nueva Bretaña, en Papúa Nueva Guinea, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). El sismo ocurrió a 40,3 kilómetros de profun
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End of Bali as a tourist hotspot experts warn Ring of Fire is only goi ... Fri, 12 Oct 2018 06:07:00 +0200.

Three people died as a powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck the popular Indonesian island of Java and left Bali shaking on Thursday, sending tourists into a state of panic. A separate 7.0-magnitude quake hit about 200km south-west of th
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Un sismo de 5,7 sacude las costas de Papúa Nueva GuineaFri, 12 Oct 2018 05:46:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud de 5,7 se ha registrado en la madrugada de este viernes en las costas de Papúa Nueva Guinea, informa el Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. ( El epicentro del temblor se detectó a 130 kilómetros al sudeste de la ciudad de
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),